Companies

Gaming firm Leisure and Resorts World Corp. (LRWC) reported a consolidated net income of P1.03 billion last year or a 37-percent increase from a P750-million profit in 2014 despite a substantial drop in its junket casino business.

The country’s top corporations are now more conscious about online security and are starting to invest heavily on information-technology (IT) products and services to address business disruptions from cyberattacks like those from computer viruses. 

By Riza Lozada Utility firm Manila Water Co. Inc. is alloting P4.2 billion for capital expenditures to expand its water service and network reliability in the Metro Manila East Zone, in which it has a concession with the government, said Fernando Zobel de Ayala, the firm’s chairman. 

Diversified conglomerate Ayala Corp. has embarked on a five-year plan to increase its net income to P50 billion by 2020 through investments in power and transport infrastructure, healthcare and education, and automotive and manufacturing, Ayala Corp. Chairman and CEO Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala said.

Top property developer SM Prime Holdings Inc. will shift its focus on projects in the provinces to cater to the “unserved” housing sector, SM Prime President Hans Sy said. 

The notorious vehicle traffic congestion in two of the Philippines’s largest cities is the target of a tie-up between app-based transport service Grab, government agencies and the World Bank (WB).

Proper preparation goes a long way. A new solar-power system has armed an elementary school with the right tools to endure the worst floods, especially when power lines are down.

The construction industry and the general public can help in the drive toward conservation by using materials produced following the highest standards of sustainability, the top official of construction-solutions company Holcim Philippines Inc. said in a recent architecture forum.

The Aetas of Pastolan in Subic Bay Freeport recently ratified the expansion of the wind- and solar-energy projects in their ancestral land as part of their commitment to sustainable development.

Mass-housing developer 8990 Holdings’s first high-rise condominium, the 42-story Urban Deca Tower along Edsa in Mandaluyong City, is now on its 30th floor and is 70 days ahead of schedule and with 48 percent of the project sold out, the company reported to the bourse.